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Danai Papageorgiou @danaipapageorgiou.bsky.social · 6d

This list can really assist peers in avoiding predatory publishers:

www.predatoryjournals.org @predatoryjournals.org

I have been receiving plenty of generic emails to join editorial boards in MDPI and Frontiers. At exactly the same time, friends receive the same generic emails..

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

lnkd.in

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Behavioural Ecology Bielefeld @behavecobie.bsky.social · 13d

New paper! 🦎
Urbanization reshapes the social behaviour of wall lizards

Now out in #BiologyLetters @royalsocietypublishing.org
🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @averymaune.bsky.social

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ASSAB @animbehav.bsky.social · 17d

Meet Chrissie Painting the new ASSAB president!

@cpaintingnz.bsky.social is a Senior Lecturer and behavioural ecologist at the University of Waikato. Her research seeks patterns in animal behaviour and morphology, with a particular focus on insect and arachnid mating systems.
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Nature @nature.com · 17d

Highlights of this year’s Ig Nobel recipients include a nutrition prize for studying the preferred pizza toppings of rainbow lizards at a seaside resort in Togo

go.nature.com/3I4wd8E

Tipsy bats and perfect pasta: Ig Nobels celebrate ‘improbable’ research

Nature - The annual awards are a celebration of weird but thought-provoking science.

go.nature.com

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Brandon Keim @brandonkeim.bsky.social · 20d

People who know reptiles well say they don't only experience fleeting pains and pleasures, but also lasting emotional states: happiness & sadness, or at least good & bad moods.

But how do you show this in a scientific way?

My latest for @nytimes.com on a clever @coldbloodedcog.bsky.social study:

Do Reptiles Have Moods, Too?

www.nytimes.com

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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 22d

📣 Hot off the press at #ProcB!

🔍 Our study checked data/code-sharing policies in 275 eco/evo journals and compliance in Proc B (n=2,340) & Ecology Letters (n=571). Policies exist, but clarity and strictness vary, affecting reproducibility.

🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 21d

New in #ProcB - From policy to practice: Progress towards #data- and #code-sharing in ecology and evolution @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social @eivimeycook.bsky.social tell us more in our blog royalsociety.org/blog/2025/09...

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Irene García-Ruiz @irenegarciaruiz.com · 22d

Soon giving a talk at the University of Neuchâtel as part of the Biology seminar series.

www.unine.ch/biologie/wp-...

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Martin Whiting @lizardlab.bsky.social · 22d

Hot off the press! Check out our new paper on sleepy lizard aka shingleback skink fire cue discrimination led by @ecolojolly.bsky.social DM if you want a PDF.

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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 28d

Water anoles take a bubble of air down when they submerge, which they breathe like a tiny scuba tank, and now @lindseyswierk.bsky.social & co reveal that the reptiles may also be using the bubble like a gill, to breathe oxygen directly from the water

journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

A submerged water anole (Anolis aquaticus) with a bubble of air held on its head. Photo credit: Lindsey Swierk.

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Emma Tecwyn @emmatecwyn.bsky.social · Sep 4

Looking forward to discussing open methods in comparative cognition, including the challenge of 'species fair' task design as part of the ManyManys webinar series 🤩

🐒🦜🐜🐕👶🦎🐐🐟

📅 September 12, 11:00 a.m. (ET) on Zoom

🔗Registration: airtable.com/app0bcw8jYPv...

#openscience #bigteamscience

Flyer for Open Methods in Comparative Cognition Research webinar

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Dr Lucy Mitchell @lucyjmitchell.bsky.social · Aug 22

Successful @ecobird.bsky.social #EOU2025 trip. Great presentations by @cesarepacioni.bsky.social, Jolien Van Malderen, Caoimhe Abdul-Wahab, Mélibée Morel and me! Well done team 👏 Loads of fun, and surprisingly good Welsh weather 😇

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Grace Blackburn @gblackburn.bsky.social · Aug 20

New paper alert 🚨 We test quantity discrimination in #magpies using both a cognitive task and playback experiment and find that birds can discriminate between quantities in both! Interestingly, performance in the two task was negatively correlated! 🐦
@mandyridley.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Response to intruder number is related to spontaneous quantity discrimination performance in a wild bird

The ability to discriminate between quantities is important for animal species. We show that wild magpies can discriminate both between different quantitie

doi.org

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Ethological Society @ethoges.bsky.social · Aug 21

🧪ETHOLOGY: Are reversal learning & inhibitory control linked? 🧠⏪🐦 Biagiotti Barchiesi et al. tested urban kelp gulls on reversal & detour tasks. Gulls adapted well, with those showing ledd inhibitory control performing better during reversal. No age effect found. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/eth.... #Cognition

Are Reversal Learning and Inhibitory Control Related? Evidence From Urban Kelp Gulls (Larus dominicanus)

All urban Kelp Gulls successfully controlled impulsive behaviors in the detour task. In the reversal learning task, they made more errors during the reversal phase than the acquisition phase. Age had...

doi.org

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Behavioral Ecology @behavecol.bsky.social · Aug 14

Cognitive processes are robust to early environmental conditions in two lizard species
#Reptile #Learning #DevelopmentalPlasticity

doi.org/10.1093/behe...

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Frontiers in Social Evolution Seminar FINE @fine-seminar.bsky.social · Aug 8

FINE Fall 2025 will start in just 4 weeks.
Here is the preliminary program.
Stay tuned!

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · Aug 6

Heat or stress hormones experienced in early life often impair cognition. A study @jexpbiol.bsky.social shows that spatial learning is unaffected in lizards when the eggs experienced such stressors. 🦎🥚

journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

@pablorecio93.bsky.social
@danielwanoble.bsky.social

Prenatal conditions do not affect brain physiology and learning in a lizard

Early environmental factors like heat or stress hormones can impair learning through brain metabolic function, crucial for neural development and synaptic plasticity. However, whether early environmen...

journals.biologists.com

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ASSAB @animbehav.bsky.social · Aug 5

Students of ASSAB! You can now apply for the 2025 student research grants here: www.assab.org/grants-2025

We have two grants available for up to AUD$2500, we will also select two highly commended applications.

Deadline: August 31st 2025

Our 2024 Grants

www.assab.org

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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · Aug 6

Research Grants by @asab.org www.asab.org/research-gra... "ASAB’s Grants Committee does not support helicopter or parachute science.... To promote inclusion, ASAB will not fund projects that rely on unpaid volunteers, e.g. for data collection."
great to see! #DEI

Research Grants — ASAB

Research Grants of up to £10,000 support original research projects.

www.asab.org

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ASSAB @animbehav.bsky.social · Aug 5

🚨Job Alert 🚨
Charles Darwin University is looking for a research project coordinator! Apply here: cdu.t1cloud.com/T1Default/Ci...

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CiA - Enterprise software, incredibly simple

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Birgit Szabo, PhD 🦎🐸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @birgitszabo.bsky.social · Aug 1

Another PREPRINT on gecko welfare out at BioRxiv (@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social)

How does a change in housing and diet influence nematode output in Tokay geckos?

Check it our here:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

a geico ad with a lizard that says oh on it

ALT: a geico ad with a lizard that says oh on it

media.tenor.com

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Laura Kelley @lauraakelley.bsky.social · Jul 29

‪Come join us at the @asab.org Winter Conference 2025: how sensory info affects behaviour.

15th & 16th Dec, abstracts due end Aug. More info and registration asabwinter.github.io/2025

Co-hosted with @jtroscianko.bsky.social and Innes Cuthill

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ASAB @asab.org · Jul 29

Join us for #ASABWinter2025 in Edinburgh Dec 15-16 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Abstracts for posters/talks due Aug 29

More details here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/

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Behaviour 2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social · Jul 22

🎟️ DAY PASS for Behaviour 2025 is now live!

🌟 Join us at Biswa Bangla Convention Centre, Kolkata from 25-30 August for world class talks, symposia, workshops & networking with global leaders in animal behaviour!

🚨Hurry up!
Day passes are selling fast,
Don't miss out!

👉Click on this link below

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Birgit Szabo, PhD 🦎🐸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @birgitszabo.bsky.social · Jul 22

Well, I am interested in social behaviour. I am more into the nice behaviour not so much the fighting 🤣

Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · Jul 22

Always RT new research on gecko welfare (admittedly I read that as "warfare" at first and got really excited)

Birgit Szabo, PhD 🦎🐸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @birgitszabo.bsky.social · Jul 22

📣 Check out the latest preprints related to Tokay gecko welfare!

1. Is physical closeness a good measure for pair bond strength? doi.org/10.32942/X2F...

2. How do incubation environment and social rearing influence development?
doi.org/10.32942/X2T...

Stay tuned for more coming soon!

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